Android overlapping text on adapter

Question

On some phones, mainly a Galaxy S2 I am having an issue where the results in a custom adapter overlap on each other. This is an example where user searched for the word "vaginal" in a search field, it is a medical app.

I am not sure the best way to describe this and the code is pretty convoluted at this point. The user types in a word, and database results come in showing matches. These results are in a List object and displayed via adapter. On most phones this works as expected, with results being sequential. On at least one device, the above screenshot happens.

Is this is a known error and how can I fix it?

Answer 1

This looks rather like How often can you update a textview without mess , possibly caused by View reuse in the list adapter. The solution to that issue is to force the background to a fully opaque colour.